Psychoanalysis Science And Power Essays In Honour Of Robert Maxwell Young | Mental Health

Psychoanalysis Science and Power reexamines the current state of psychoanalysis and science and technology studies as they have been influenced by Robert Maxwell Young’s work. Robert Maxwell Young a Texas émigré to Britain was a scholar publisher TV documentarian psychoanalytic psychotherapist journal editor conference organizer and political activist. Young urged that psychoanalysis particularly in its Kleinian incarnation illuminated new aspects of science and technology studies and vice versa. This volume not only provides an overview of Young’s life and interests by a stellar cast of scholars and practitioners but also commemorates the many and intersecting streams of his contributions reasoning for their continuing relevance in the contemporary studies of psychoanalysis biological sciences technology and Darwinian thought. Presenting perspectives that are rigorously analytical and yet often poignant Psychoanalysis Science and Power will be an important read for students analysts and analytic therapists of all orientations who are interested in broadening their understanding of their practice. |Psychoanalysis Science and Power Essays in Honour of Robert Maxwell Young | Mental Health